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RE: Messages From The Dead
June 18, 2012 at 10:19 am
(June 18, 2012 at 6:53 am)frankiej Wrote: I have had a few, but all they said were "braaaaaaaiiiinnnnzzzz".
If you give me $30 I'll interpret it for you.
I think it's natural to dream of someone dead who you miss. I wouldn't put too much stock in these messages unless they reliably conveyed information you couldn't have possibly known. Let's say I dream of my deceased grandmother and she says "I forgive you", referring to my guilt over not visiting her enough when she was alive. How do I know that's not just me making up her dialogue? I possess all the knowledge and abilities to make it up after all. The simplest explanation is that I just dreamt it up myself, rather than positing the mind and body being separate, the mind surviving death and going into some afterlife, and then communicating with me from there.
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RE: Messages From The Dead
June 18, 2012 at 11:00 am
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The human brain has a curious mechanism where it disregards what it considers usual and focuses mainly on the unusual. Coincidence that reality mirrored a dream is an excellent example of this.
You almost certainly have many many dreams, and only 3 have matched up with reality. Happens all the time, which is why we get so freaked out by deja vu.
There's a guy at my casino who hates playing AA in poker because he "never wins". This is not true, but he does attribute a "supernatural" source, i.e. bad luck because the times it happens are more memorable than the many times that he never has a problem.
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RE: Messages From The Dead
June 18, 2012 at 11:02 am
(June 18, 2012 at 11:00 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: There's a guy at my casino who hates playing AA in poker because he "never wins". This is not true, but he does attribute a "supernatural" source, i.e. bad luck because the times it happens are more memorable than the many times that he never has a problem.
Next time you see this man slap him for me. That boy is crazy.
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RE: Messages From The Dead
June 18, 2012 at 11:11 am
(June 18, 2012 at 11:00 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: There's a guy at my casino who hates playing AA in poker because he "never wins". This is not true, but he does attribute a "supernatural" source, i.e. bad luck because the times it happens are more memorable than the many times that he never has a problem.
yep, if he has kk, i understand more. but pocket bullets? crazy.
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RE: Messages From The Dead
June 18, 2012 at 11:17 am
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(June 18, 2012 at 11:11 am)jackman Wrote: yep, if he has kk, i understand more. but pocket bullets? crazy.
It's a bit more understandable if I mention he doesn't raise them. He just lets lots of people in the pot with him at which point he becomes a huge dog.
Nobody seems keen to educate him for some reason...........
EDIT: Thinking about it, this makes the original analogy inaccurate since its his own damn fault.
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RE: Messages From The Dead
June 18, 2012 at 11:31 am
ah ok, seems he just has short pockets and is timid ... or hopes to catch people slipping and overbidding. it's a shame, he never flops KKA to help his confidence. lol.
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RE: Messages From The Dead
June 18, 2012 at 2:36 pm
When a friend of mine died, I noticed that for the first week or so, I didn't dream about him, even though I was certain I would. Then I finally had a dream about him, but it wasn't a standard dream. It was just he and I sitting in a void having a conversation. When I asked him why he hadn't visited me, he told me it was because he knew I was stronger than his parents and he needed to comfort them. Later on, when I talked to his parents, they said that he was comforting them in their dreams. I believed for a little while that I had actually had a post-mortem conversation with my friend, because it meant that he was still out there somewhere. After being in shock because of the death of my friend, I really needed it to be real.
The brain is a powerful trickster when dealing with trauma, especially death, so none of it is real.
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RE: Messages From The Dead
June 18, 2012 at 3:03 pm
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(June 18, 2012 at 11:00 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: There's a guy at my casino who hates playing AA in poker because he "never wins". This is not true, but he does attribute a "supernatural" source, i.e. bad luck because the times it happens are more memorable than the many times that he never has a problem.
I'd bet he plays 'em bad and can't lay 'em down when they're beat as well.
(June 18, 2012 at 11:17 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: (June 18, 2012 at 11:11 am)jackman Wrote: yep, if he has kk, i understand more. but pocket bullets? crazy.
It's a bit more understandable if I mention he doesn't raise them. He just lets lots of people in the pot with him at which point he becomes a huge dog.
Nobody seems keen to educate him for some reason...........
EDIT: Thinking about it, this makes the original analogy inaccurate since its his own damn fault.
Umm, yeah. What was I saying?
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(June 18, 2012 at 11:31 am)jackman Wrote: ah ok, seems he just has short pockets and is timid ... or hopes to catch people slipping and overbidding. it's a shame, he never flops KKA to help his confidence. lol.
The one time I remember that happening to me with AA, the other guy had KK. 
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RE: Messages From The Dead
June 19, 2012 at 1:29 pm
(June 17, 2012 at 7:09 pm)average Wrote: Has anyone else on here had messages from the dead? I have; in 70 years of dreams only had three that were messages. The info given in those dreams proved to be true
Only once. My grandfather came back to tell me how I was going to die.
I will die at the age of 103; shot in the back by a jealous teenaged husband.
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RE: Messages From The Dead
June 20, 2012 at 7:37 am
I had one from my great-grandfather. He said something about the next Saturday lotto numbers, but it turned out the numbers were from last week. Useless old senile bugger...
I have no problem sharing a common ancestor with the apes; it's being related to some people that bothers me.
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